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self-seeking

[self-see-king] / ˈsɛlfˈsi kɪŋ /


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The result: Some patients are self-seeking these clinics instead of primary doctors prescribing the medication.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2024

Mishra’s Voltaire is a self-seeking capitalist entrepreneur, because, among other things, he established a watch factory at Ferney—as a refuge and asylum for persecuted Protestants.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 13, 2017

The play was a savage satire on England, depicting the ups and downs of a self-seeking Midlands family.

From BBC • Jan. 16, 2014

I suspect the play is really an indictment of both generations: the self-seeking individualism of Thatcher's children and their ineffectual offspring, who talk a good ethical game while lacking the capacity for action.

From The Guardian • May 25, 2012

His patriotism was untainted by self-seeking; he was courageous in risking his popularity for what his sound judgment showed him to be the right course.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various